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Old School Rpg Goodness!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 20
Date: September 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game takes me back to when First person RPG's were king ala Wizardry and the Bard's Tale series of game's. D.W. Bradley, who designed the Wizardry series of games, is back with a vengenace with Wizards and Warriors. At the start of the game you must make your characters from a choice 10 playable races, which include elves,dwarves,and more exotic races such as whiskas(Tigerpeople) and Pixies. Once outside, the world is in 3d and IMO the graphics are well done, actually making you feel very apart of the world. Combat is done either real-time or turned-based, leaving it up to the player how they want to fight there battles. There are tons of quests for the player to do, there is always a cool place to explore or somebody to talk too that needs a quest done. One of my favorite things about this game is it does feel like you are in this land, it draws you in and once you start playing it you realize you cannot stop playing, which is what happened to me! This game is not for everybody, gamers who don't like First person games should prob not get it, but any body who loved Ultima Underworld and Wizardry go directly and pick this game up, it is one of the best RPG experiences I have ever had.

Unplayable in it's current form.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: November 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Revising my previous review: having tinkered with this game some more, the problems are even worse than I thought. If I could give this game zero stars, I would, because it is absolutely unplayable in it's current form. In spite of some interesting design elements, there are EXTREME problems with both programming and game balance. I honestly don't see how this game could have made it through alpha testing without someone catching these problems. It is clear that nobody at the company ever played it all the way through.

About half way through the game, you hit a pair of monsters called "Amazoni man traps". I don't use the term "unkillable" lightly, but these things deserve it. They have an ENORMOUS, rapid fire, area effect attack that paralyzes and poisons, and always whipes out the entire party in the first volley! I had to replay the battle five times just to last long enough in order to be able to turn around and see what was attacking me! Their attack is so disproportionate to anything else in the game that it has to be a programming glitch. I really can't believe that any playtester on the game made it past these things without using some sort of cheat code-- if they even tested this section of the game at all. The Man Traps can't be bypassed, and even a party which has completed every quest possible by this point will be woefully inadequate to deal with them. Basically, the game comes crashing to a halt at this point.

Anyway, like I said, the game is unplayable in its current form. I'm annoyed that Activision released it in this state, and I feel cheated at having spent money on it.

Great character advancement, but a couple of bugs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

As noted in other reviews, there are a few bugs, and the discussions surrounding Activision/Heuristic Park have been the most confusing thing I've ever seen in game playing. Who ever heard of a publisher reluctant to release a patch?? The gameplay, however, is fantastic. I've restarted the game on three different occassions and explored different character advancement strategies. The whole skill/magic advancement is very enjoyable -- there's a real sense of progress in this game. The dungeon crawls are fun; the puzzles tend to be pretty self-explanatory (not a whole lot of "find the right pixel"). The journal/quest tracking mechanism could be better, and there are quite a few bugs, but overall this is the best game I've played in the last few years.

Good game, mostly!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm about half-way through it, but so far, it's worth the money and the wait. The patch seems to have fixed almost all the bugs (but characters still "loose" things they pick up...where do those items go???). It looks and feels like the Wizardry series (no surprise) so if you liked those games, especially the last two or three, you'll like this one, too. Some complaints: the way the game handles the passing of time is strange - I seem to do most of my travelling and fighting at night! There's no way to rest and let time go by, as in M&M. I don't like the way the outside world is arranged, in long winding "paths" rather than just one wide open space. And I definitely don't like the game's tendency to give one hit point when a character levels up. Other than that, a pretty good first person RPG. I hope Bradley gives us more of the same!

Basic qualities, outstanding game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Simply put this game has everything you'd expect, story line, graphics etc with an old school feel to it. It reminds you of playing wizardry, might and magic all the games you grew up with yet delivers much more. When I first started playing I couldn't stop for two solid days, I love the class system and the guilds for advancement something you don't see enough of. If you enjoyed all those classics you use to play go get this one right away.

RPG Fans Will Rejoice!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This RPG is a lot like Dungeon Master, Dagerfall and Lands Of Lore, but the graphics for the monsters and locations look better, as does the changing sky as night approaches. You move up to six characters around a huge world by foot, horse, and boat meeting quest helping NPC's and fighting for your life. The interface is a bit clunky at first, the normal move with arrows and look with mouse combo is missing, also, you can only restore your position by quiting the game back to the town menu, where to save you must leave the town. Still, after you get used to the mechanics of the game I found myself having a lot of fun!

Run of the mill

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: September 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ok, as most of the other reviews say, the graphics are average 3D environments and the characters have average voice acting, but there are a few additional points I'd like to make.

The good points are as follows:

1. I was amazed by the little details in the game such as the way objects could be crushed by moving doors or lifts etc.

2. Each dungeon has LOTS to do, with far more than just straight forward find object/kill monsters objectives.

3. Apart from shop keepers and guild members, every other character is voice acted.

4. There is a clear sense of adventure right from the start.

The bad points are as follows:

1. What do you want to see when you enter a city in an RPG? You want to see people walking about - doing their own things, so you can approach them and speak to them etc. NONE of that here. You get a static screen that you can scroll left or right so you can choose which building you wish to enter. You cannot explore the buildings.

2. To complete any dungeon you have to be: psychic and unusually patient. There is no explanation anywhere on how to do things within the dungeon. For example: to do the 2nd dungeon you have to find 5 snake figurines scattered throughout the dungeon (one which is carried by a monkey that you let out of a cage), a coin which you have to get from killing a disciple (which you then place in a snake head to get some incense), place the monkey figurines on some bookshelves (why I don't know), get the revealed wand, go to a pyre, throw on the incense cast the magic wand, say some lines from some book you found randomly and then kill the serpent that appears. Now believe me, to get these things you have to go through much torture.

If you wish to see how convoluted and sprawling these dungeons are just check out a walkthough on the internet!

3. There is no background to this game. There is no feeling of history. It's just a bunch of dungeons that you have to access through windy paths. Difficult dungeons.

Now I am not a negative person when it comes to games, in fact I was willing to put up with Daggerfall's hiccups to enjoy it. But that game was filled with interest, whereas this game isn't.

If you want an amazing RPG experience play Morrowind. By a new PC just to play on it. It is so much better than anything else of this ilk.

Killing for Fun and Profit

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Simply the best on the market right now. Level 1 (of 3) is cake. However, Level 2 is pretty intense w/ some extremely nasty monsters (learn to save game ASAP as soon as you sense ANY mantraps because you will be killed almost every time you meet one until you master blanketing them w/ top level spells - which always works - unless you're standing too close or the software lets them beat up on you first, in which case you're still dead). Level 3 rocks. A word to the wise: this software is NOT compatible w/ Windows 2000, even w/ patches, so beware & have fun killing everything that crosses your path.

Game is way behind current Gaming Technology Standards

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: January 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The gaming engine is outdated and the interface is clumsy...

The other thing that really bothers me is that Text area... When I enter an inn or armory, etc... I have to read text... What happened to a real voice.. or an option to either have voice or text or both.. but instead its another text box.. scrolling away.. COme on... Just add a few more .wav's to take care of that....... This reminds me of those blasted silly Japanese RPG games for the Playstation....

text...text...text....with no voice...... Very Boring..... In addition, too much of the screen is taken up with menu buttons and other junk. You should have a hotkey to close out some of the junk that is displayed on the screen.. The player deserves more gaming area than what is provided...

Fighting in the game is extremely awkward and since I can't use the mouse to help with movement while pressing keyboard keys..... its very clumsy... The baddies basically own.......

What happened to MOUSE LOOK - looking around with the mouse...... Whoops.. the developers must have missed that one...???

Clicking arrows on a screen to move around is is outright silly..... Come on.... I thought we graduated from that junk..... ALthough many years ago.. Great games such as Eye of the BeholderI/II and Lands of Lore pulled that stuff off... beautifully... but this game doesn't even meet those standards of those old classics.. My recommendation is to pass this game up.... and let the developers smell the salt and wake up.. This game should have been a free mod or shareware title.. so that the developers can learn how to trully design a good game...... and this aint it...

David

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was very addicting and fun. Some of the voices are done really well! The graphics are pretty good for an older game and you can go up to 1024 x 768 resolution with it. The monster animations are done rather well and there are lots of quests to do. You can join guilds and change your charater class whenever you want. The spell effects are good too. My favorite is the Firestorm and Tornado. The sound and music are done well too. It even has positional sound with a four or more speaker setup. I enjoyed the ending movie, becuase it was totaly unsuspected. For a three year old game, this game still holds its own!

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